Do you
see what is happening in Syria, Egypt and the Sudan right now as the "people"
try to protest against government abuses? They are mowed down like lambs
to the slaughter by the military. Then there is mid twentieth century
Germany and Russia who annihilated or starved their people to death by
the tens of millions. It is estimated that Chairman Mao killed 70,000,000
of his own people with heavy weapons and starvation. In America's un-civil
war in 1861 to 1865, 600,000 soldiers and civilians died in a bloody conflict,
unparalleled in brutality and savagery at the time.

Let's
take it down a notch. Did you see what Attorney General Janet Reno did
to the Branch Davidian at Waco, TX and the Ruby Ridge fiasco in Idaho
in 1992 and 1993? Janet Reno's ATF turned heavy weapons on the Branch
Davidian Compound, including an armored tank, against people with sticks,
pitchforks and maybe a couple of rifles. 76 men, women and children died
needlessly in the fire set by the U. S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Agency (ATF) that was engaged in a brutal, violent siege of the compound.

A year
before Attorney General Janet Reno's FBI, ATF and the U. S. Marshall's
Service took on Randy Weaver and his family at their Cabin in Idaho. Randy's
son and wife were killed by government agents in the raid.

"At
the subsequent federal criminal trial of Weaver and Harris, Weaver's attorney
Gerry Spence made accusations of "criminal wrongdoing" against
every agency involved in the incident: the FBI, USMS, the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the United States Attorney's
Office (USAO) for Idaho. At the completion of the trial, the Department
of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility formed a Ruby
Ridge Task Force to investigate Spence's charges. The 1994 Task Force
report was released in redacted form by Lexis Counsel Connect and raised
questions about the conduct and policy of all the agencies."

Remember
what President Lincoln did to "preserve" the Union, from which
one of the bloodiest of all American battles erupted? He pitted the people
of the North against the people of the South. He financed the war by creating
his own currency, the "Green Back". He imprisoned people who
spoke out against the war. He suspended Habeas Corpus, one of the pillars
of the Constitution and freedom. He preserved the Union, but at what cost
to liberty?

The
prevailing theme here is that the government will bring whatever weapons
to bear that will overwhelm those in opposition to the edicts of government,
even here in America. If government doesn't have big enough weapons, they
invent them.

Even
a million-man march on Washington DC would not stop the government if
they unilaterally decided to blunt the protest with heavy weapons. Hundreds
of thousands would die in one single day of battle between a million people
and the government's heavy weapons. Government's power to kill its own
people knows no bounds except the bounds of the U. S. Constitution, that
is if government decides to honor the document. The only thing that stands
between the American people and absolute tyranny and bloodshed beyond
anyone's wildest imagination, is what lies on those few pages, but only
the people have the power to keep the government within those bounds.
Eventually, even the power of the people will not stop a government that
is hell bent on putting the people in chains, visible or invisible. Government's
absolute power can come about by law, or implemented at the point of a
gun ..... a very big gun.

The
government's propensity to break the bounds of the Constitution grows
literally by the day. President Obama has become King Obama and exercises
his unconstitutional authority on a whim, while he thumbs his ever-growing
nose at Congress. The Congress and the U. S. Supreme Court either stand
by and watch, or aid and abet Obama's increasing power, as the high court
did in rendering Obama Care constitutional.

The
so-called conservative opposition to Obama makes milk toast a powerful
word. Making nice is always a losing negotiating strategy, in a war of
guns, or a war of ideologies.

Now
you say, " .... but this is America, government violence on the people
can't happen here." If you are a student of history, you will see
that it can happen anywhere at any time. If the people will not comply
with the growing power of government, in the end violent force is used
and people die. Once violent force is used, the preponderance of the people
capitulate, leaving any redress or the preservation of freedom to the
few who will surrender their lives in freedom's pursuit. If you don't
believe it can happen here, ask why the Department of Homeland Security
has purchased over 1.5 Billion rounds of ammunition, most of it the deadly
hollow point kind? Ask the survivors of the tragedy that was the Waco
Siege? Ask Randy Weaver who lost his wife and son at the attack at Ruby
Ridge? Ask rural landowners that come under fire from draconian land use
and environmental laws? Ask the natural milk farmers that were raided
by the U. S. Government? Ask the owners of Gibson Guitars that were raided
by U. S. government agents for having illegal wood on the premises, while
their competitor Martin Guitars was untouched and had the same wood on
its premises? Oh, did you know the owners of Martin Guitars are huge Obama
supporters, but the owners of Gibson Guitars supported conservatives?

Did
you know under Obama Care, government agents can come into your home for
an inspection without a warrant, under the "Maternal,
Infant and Early Childhood Home Visits Program?" Are you going
to stop them and claim violation of the 4th Amendment against unreasonable
search and seizures? Probably not!

Did
you know that government no longer requires a 4th Amendment criminal warrant
signed by a judge, requiring probable cause to search your home? Government
can now get a civil administrative or inspection warrant, served by the
sheriff, to get into your home if they want to. The sheriff carries a
gun. Your legal defenses ..... none? Your right to privacy ..... none?

When
the 4th Amendment is gone, what will happen to the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd,
the 5th, the 8th, 9th and 10th? What will stop the government from repealing
the entire Bill of Rights at any time they so choose? Are you going to
stop them? They have heavy weapons at their disposal. What do you have
..... a rifle, a pistol?

From
one of our previous articles:

"The
only hope for America, short of revolution, is the rise of "A Culture
of Resistance" that ripples like a tidal wave through the fabric
of society, a resistance that vigorously but peacefully challenges the
prevailing wisdom or the brainwashed mindset of obedience, compliance
and loyalty to authority. This brainwashed mindset is called socialism
or communism and has happened many times throughout human history, advocated
by governments seeking greater control over the people. It happened in
Germany twice in the 20th Century with unimaginably tragic consequences.
It is happening in all of Europe now and has been happening for decades.
Central and South America have been consumed by dictators and despots
for centuries, with a few exceptions. It has never stopped happening in
Russia and China. But far worse, this mindset is now happening in America,
once the land of the free."

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This
"Culture of Resistance" must be manifested in massive and peaceful
disobedience to authority that has grown well beyond its constitutional
powers, at all levels of government.

Ladies
and gentlemen, it is plain to see that once the government decides that
the only way to control the people is by force of deadly heavy weapons,
peaceful means to reclaim and preserve freedom will no longer be an option
and we will find ourselves in that situation described by Prime Minister
Winston Churchill as a time when:

"You
may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better
to perish than to live as slaves.”

Ron Ewart, a
nationally known author and speaker on freedom and property issues and
author of his weekly column, "In Defense of Rural America",
is the President of the National Association of Rural Landowners, (NARLO)
a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington State and dedicated
to restoring, maintaining and defending property rights for urban and
rural landowners. Mr. Ewart can be reached by e-mail for comment at ron@narlo.org,
or by 'phone at 1 800 682-7848.

Did
you see what Attorney General Janet Reno did to the Branch Davidian at
Waco, TX and the Ruby Ridge fiasco in Idaho in 1992 and 1993? Janet Reno's
ATF turned heavy weapons on the Branch Davidian Compound, including an
armored tank, against people with sticks, pitchforks and maybe a couple
of rifles. 76 men, women and children died needlessly...